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Experience, Subjectivity and Politics in the Italian Feminist Movement
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Abstract This article describes the political practices of a part of the Italian women’s movement that, as of the 1980s, gave way to the sexual difference thought. Through a political analysis of their own experience, which removed any humanist identity assump... view more
This article describes the political practices of a part of the Italian women’s movement that, as of the 1980s, gave way to the sexual difference thought. Through a political analysis of their own experience, which removed any humanist identity assumptions, the women’s movement generated new practices and discourses. With these, women were able to exert self-criticism, and simultaneously to produce new subjectivities articulated around the sexual difference concept. The difference thought helped highlight the limits of institutional policy, renewing the premises of political analysis and redefining the borders of what was deemed to be ‘political’. Intended to foster dialogue with other feminist proposals, the article underlines the situated nature of this political experience and focuses on the method, the political praxis and the process rather than the outcome, the conclusions or the theory.... view less
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difference; experience; feminism politics; practices; subjectivity;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2006
Page/Pages
p. 343-355
Journal
European Journal of Women's Studies, 13 (2006) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506806068653
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)